An extreme form of 'kamikaze loggias', informal structures characteristic of post-Soviet Tbilisi. Anarchic, vernacular extensions of Soviet buildings have been created since the 1990s, and now preside over the collective cityscape of the Georgian capital.

ph: Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk
Terrific article on the carnage wrought on Tbilisi’s historical centre since the breakup of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, and the current disastrous state of its urban environment (including the kamikaze loggias phenomenon)
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/nov/15/vanity-projects-and-kamikaze-loggias-tibilisi-architectural-disaster?CMP=share_btn_tw
Kamikaze loggia... with garage.

http://biennial.ge/news/buildings-are-not-enough/
via @TbilisiB
(the link to the Guardian article seems to have changed - here's the new one) https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/nov/15/vanity-projects-and-kamikaze-loggias-tbilisi-architectural-disaster
Vanity projects and kamikaze loggias: Tbilisi’s architectural disaster

The centre of the Georgian capital has long been the plaything of outsize egos – but can its architecture biennial inspire useful debate about the city’s future?

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/nov/15/vanity-projects-and-kamikaze-loggias-tbilisi-architectural-disaster
A great lecture on the history of public housing in Georgia and its transformation after the fall of the Soviet Union, including the origins of the 'kamikaze loggias' phenomenon
http://urbanreactor.blogspot.com/2012/04/post-war-housing-in-georgia.html
A great lecture on the history of public housing in Georgia and its transformation after the fall of the Soviet Union, including the origins of the 'kamikaze loggias' phenomenon http://urbanreactor.blogspot.com/2012/04/post-war-housing-in-georgia.html
A great lecture on the history of public housing in Georgia and its transformation after the fall of the Soviet Union, including the origins of the 'kamikaze loggias' phenomenon http://urbanreactor.blogspot.com/2012/04/post-war-housing-in-georgia.html
A great lecture on the history of public housing in Georgia and its transformation after the fall of the Soviet Union, including the origins of the 'kamikaze loggias' phenomenon http://urbanreactor.blogspot.com/2012/04/post-war-housing-in-georgia.html
A great lecture on the history of public housing in Georgia and its transformation after the fall of the Soviet Union, including the origins of the 'kamikaze loggias' phenomenon http://urbanreactor.blogspot.com/2012/04/post-war-housing-in-georgia.html
“It’s hard to find a single building that doesn’t have something on top of it” - an excellent piece on the informal architecture epidemic in post-Soviet Yerevan
https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/11033/can-post-revolution-yerevan-get-to-grips-with-its-informal-architecture-epidemic
“It’s hard to find a single building that doesn’t have something on top of it” - an excellent piece on the informal architecture epidemic in post-Soviet Yerevan https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/11033/can-post-revolution-yerevan-get-to-grips-with-its-informal-architecture-epidemic
“It’s hard to find a single building that doesn’t have something on top of it” - an excellent piece on the informal architecture epidemic in post-Soviet Yerevan https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/11033/can-post-revolution-yerevan-get-to-grips-with-its-informal-architecture-epidemic
“It’s hard to find a single building that doesn’t have something on top of it” - an excellent piece on the informal architecture epidemic in post-Soviet Yerevan https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/11033/can-post-revolution-yerevan-get-to-grips-with-its-informal-architecture-epidemic
“It’s hard to find a single building that doesn’t have something on top of it” - an excellent piece on the informal architecture epidemic in post-Soviet Yerevan https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/11033/can-post-revolution-yerevan-get-to-grips-with-its-informal-architecture-epidemic
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